The Cuckmere Railway

The Cuckmere Railway  The Cuckmere River (never the River Cuckmere!) has always decided its own route to the sea.  This map shows the various places where the mouth of the river has been since the eighteenth century.  The map shows something else of interest, a thin black line at the top marked ‘Tramway’.   Cuckmere Haven once had its…

A Policeman involved in a Sussex Disaster

This story starts with a sepia coloured photograph in the archives of the British Transport Police History Group titled ‘William Holman – Brighton Railway Police’. The photograph shows a bewhiskered, top-hatted man making a note in his pocket-book. But who was he? William Holman was born in Ightham, Kent in 1801. He was married to…